Day: June 6, 2025
‘Stupid’ Apple Pay prank plagues commuters on London Tube
June 6, 2025Brooke Davies Published June 6, 2025 2:43pm Updated June 6, 2025 2:43pm
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People stuck in 26-storey tower block after lifts broke only offered £100 voucher
June 6, 2025Brooke Davies Published June 6, 2025 2:29pm Updated June 6, 2025 2:29pm Residents trapped up an iconic Brutalist tower block have been offered only £100 in compensation despite being unable to leave their homes. Those living in the top floors of the 26-storey Balfron Tower, east London, have been periodically stuck in their flats as […]
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Three men appear in court accused of arson attacks on properties linked to Keir Starmer
June 6, 2025Brooke Davies Published June 6, 2025 11:00am Updated June 6, 2025 3:13pm Three Ukrainians who have been accused of setting fire to two properties and a car linked to Sir Keir Starmer’s home have appeared in court. Ukrainian Roman Lavrynovych, 21, has been charged with three counts of arson with intent to endanger life over […]
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Hot weather to finally return but not before we endure a drenching
June 6, 2025Brooke Davies Published June 6, 2025 10:04am Updated June 6, 2025 2:54pm This week has been miserable across the UK – rain showers in London, winds near the coast and lower temperatures. Don’t fret – it won’t be long until we can start experiencing some warm, summery weather again. Yesterday, rain and thunder hit London […]
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One of JMW Turner’s earliest paintings rediscovered after 150 years
June 6, 2025An oil painting of a stormy Bristol landscape has been rediscovered as one of the earliest works of JMW Turner, created when the artist was 17 years old and lost to his canon for the past 150 years. Turner’s signature on The Rising Squall, Hot Wells, from St Vincent’s Rock, Bristol was discovered in the […]
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Noblewoman may have ordered brazen murder of priest outside St Paul’s in 1337
June 6, 2025Almost 700 years ago, in a busy London street in the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral, a priest called John Ford was brazenly stabbed to death in a crime notable both for its public nature and its ferocity. It was early evening, just after vespers on 4 May 1337, and the street in Westcheap would […]
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